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By Laila Bassam and Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters Members of the Lebanese civil defence battle a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut's Basta neighbourhood on October 11, 2024. At least 22 people were killed in Israeli strikes on a densely populated area of central Beirut on October 10, the Lebanese health ministry said. Photo: AFP At least one Israeli strike hit Beirut's southern suburbs early on Wednesday morning, Reuters witnesses said, hours after the US said it opposed the scope of Israeli attacks in Beirut amid a rising death toll and fears of wider regional escalation. Reuters witnesses heard two blasts and saw plumes of smoke emerging from two separate neighbourhoods. It came after Israel issued an evacuation order early on Wednesday which mentioned only one building. The...

Helen Regan, Lex Harvey, Manveena Suri and Esha Mitra for CNN Air India Airbus A350-900 aircraft. Photo: AFP / NICOLAS ECONOMOU Twin bomb threats have hit Indian airliners on opposite sides of the globe, forcing an emergency landing in the Arctic and fighter jets to scramble in Asia - the latest in a series of similar hoax scares for the country's airlines. Indian airlines have faced "a number of threats in recent days," all of which have been found to be hoaxes, flag carrier Air India said in a statement, as authorities in New Delhi and around the world investigate the string of false bomb warnings. An Air India flight from New Delhi to Chicago made an emergency landing in Iqaluit, Canada's northernmost city. All 211 passengers and crew were relocated to the airport, Canadian police...

By Luke Goodsell, ABC Entertainment Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, and Riley Keough attend the Handprint Ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre on 21 June, 2022 in Hollywood, California. Photo: Jon Kopaloff / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP For years after rock 'n' roll titan Elvis Presley died, his daughter Lisa Marie said her father would appear in her dreams - her, curled up in the hamburger-shaped bed she loved as a child, him sitting beside her in astral conversation. "I don't really believe they were dreams," Presley writes in her newly released posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown. "I believe they were visitations." When Lisa Marie Presley died at age 54 in January 2023, it was almost as though some dark destiny had been fulfilled - the child of...

Australia Defence Minister Richard Marles says the government will make an initial investment of A$127 million over three years. File picture. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Australia says it will invest billions of dollars over the next two decades to expand a shipyard in Western Australia that will become the maintenance hub for its nuclear-powered AUKUS submarine fleet. The government will make an initial investment of A$127 million over three years to upgrade facilities at the Henderson shipyard near Perth, Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement. "The Defence Precinct at Henderson will optimise Australia's shipbuilding and sustainment industry while supporting continuous naval shipbuilding in Western Australia and Australia's nuclear-powered submarine pathway," Marles sa...